Farbrace new coach?

Sri Lanka Cricket is set to hold talks with Englishman Paul Farbrace with a view to appointing him as head coach, Graham Ford's successor.

The SLC executive committee has decided that the governing body should have a discussion with Paul Farbrace, as he had shown an interest to take over the job, the SLC said in a statement.

" The committee appointed by SLC, made a recommendation to the Executive Committee with a few options and the Executive Committee directed the committee to proceed with a proposal of having a discussion with Mr. Paul Farbrace as he has shown interest in becoming the Head Coach of Sri Lanka.

The committee has requested Mr. Farbrace to make himself available for a discussion in Sri Lanka," Sri Lanka Cricket announced.

Farbrace, 46, a former Kent and Middlesex player served as Sri Lanka's assistant coach to Trevor Bayliss between July 2007

and August 2009. More famously, he was part of the Sri Lanka set up when the team bus came under a terrorist attack in the Pakistani city of Lahore in March 2009.